Modes of Transmission
A transfer of a disease from a vehicle (like a needle).
What is Vehicle-born transmission?
An organism or substance that can create disease.
What is a pathogen?
Someone who has been diagnosed with a health related event.
What is a case?
An infected person or animal that contains an infectious organism.
What is a carrier?
An effort to prevent disease or disorder before it occurs.
What is primary prevention?
A transfer of bacteria on dust particles or respiratory droplets from sneezing, coughing, or laughing. Some diseases capable of this transmission is influence, polio, pneumonia, and tuberculosis.
What is Airborne Transmission?
The habitat where an infectious agent lives. The infectious agent also grows and multiplies and does so for its survival.
What is a reservoir?
The first disease case in a population.
What is a primary case?
an individual who has been exposed or possesses a pathogen, even if they have recovered from the disease.
What is an active carrier?
Behavior changes on the part of the individual that prevents disease or disorder before it occurs.
What is active primary prevention?
a transfer of a pathogen to a host by a vector (invertebrate animal), with the pathogen changing and reproducing while in the vector.
What is Biological transmission?
Disease transmission that happens when the pathogen leaves the reservoir through a portal.
What is portal of exit?
A person who becomes infected from contact with the primary case after the disease has been presented into the population.
What is a secondary case?
An individual who has been exposed to and possesses the pathogen, but has not shown any symptoms of the disease.
What is a healthy or passive carrier?
Does not require behavior change from the individual to prevent a disease or disorder from happening.
What is passive primary prevention?
A transfer of a disease to a human by an invertebrate animal (ex: tick, mite, mosquito).
What is Vector-Born Transmission?
the entryway in which the pathogen or infectious agent enters the body/host
What is a portal of entry?
An individual or group who has all the signs/symptoms of a disease but have not been diagnosed with the disease.
What is a suspect case?
An individual who has been exposed to and possesses a pathogen, and who can also spread the disease at different place or intervals.
What is intermittent carrier?
Activities aimed at health screening and early detection to improve the likelihood of cure and reduce chance of disability or death.
What is secondary prevention?
A vector-borne disease transmission processes that occur when the virus uses a host (fly, flea, rat) to be able to accomplish the transfer process.
What is Mechanical Transmission?
Objects like clothing or towels that can possess a disease agent and could be able to transmit it.
What is a fomite?
The first disease case brought to the attention of the epidemiologist.
What is an index case?
An individual who possesses a pathogen, and even after the recovery phase, is still infectious.
What is a convalescent carrier?
Efforts to limit disability by providing rehabilitation where disease, injury, or disorder has already occurred and caused damage.
What is tertiary prevention?